The Great Echo Park CleanUp

I snapped a picture of graffiti scrawled on a huge billboard above Portia and Sunset Blvd.

Josh Post, an Echo Park resident and candidate for LA City Council’s CD13, chimed in, as did @Chicano_Soul.

Days later, the name for the community cleanup was born.

I conjured up the name “The Great Echo Park CleanUp” with the intention that it would become a seasonal event.

Josh Post, Odysseus Bostick, and Marietta Torriente have been instrumental in bringing the working pieces together — calling the City for supplies, rakes, trash bags — while local Echo Park shop owners have offered their support. Cesar Diaz, co-owner of Downbeat Cafe, has offered volunteers discounted lattes the day-of, while Masa of Echo Park proudly displays a poster of the event on their front window.

Tomorrow’s event may have a small support crew of volunteers, but every hand helps. To join, please visit the Facebook Event Page here.